Gern Blandsten Records

{{Short description|American independent record label}}{{Infobox record label

| name = Gern Blandsten Records

| image = Gern Blandsten Records Logo.png

| founded = {{start date and age|1992}}

| founder = Charles Maggio

| status = Active

| genre = {{hlist|Indie rock|punk rock|emo}}

| country = United States of America

| website = {{URL|gernblandsten.com}}

| slogan = "Fine music products for the socially unaccepted."

}}

Gern Blandsten Records is an independent record label based in Paramus, New Jersey.

The label's acts have included The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Canyon, Chisel, the Van Pelt, Radio 4, The Flesh, Weston, Native Nod and Rye Coalition. Gern Blandsten also released the debut albums by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Liars and Dälek.

The label was founded by Rorschach's Charles Maggio in 1992, and is named after a character in a Steve Martin comedy routine from his 1979 album Comedy Is Not Pretty!.{{cite web |title=An Interview with Charles Maggio |url=http://www.southern.com/southern/label/GER/interview.html |accessdate=September 10, 2006 |date=September 1997 |work=Southern Records website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823102459/http://www.southern.com/southern/label/GER/interview.html |archivedate=August 23, 2006 }}